Santa Clara University to Host National Networking Seminar for Women in Business on May 8; Scholarship to Be Awarded to Leavey School of Business MBA Student

Business Wire, May 6, 2004

Business Editors/Education Writers

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 6, 2004

Santa Clara University's Leavey School of Business will host a national seminar for women in business on Saturday, May 8, entitled "Redefining the Game," an all-day program for women who are working professionals or students.

"MBA graduates, and especially women MBA graduates, have important new opportunities," said Barry Posner, business school dean and co-author of the award-winning and best-selling leadership book: The Leadership Challenge: How to Keep Getting Extraordinary Things Done in Organizations.

The all-day May 8 seminar, organized by the University's Women in Business Network, will be presented by the Committee of 200 (C200), an elite national group of women business leaders, at the University's Benson Memorial Center. It is just one of two of C200s MBA-level seminars in the U.S. this year.

The keynote speaker at 9 a.m. will be Mindy Meads, president and CEO of Lands End, Inc. The 2 p.m. keynote speaker will be Sheila Cluff, owner of two Palm Springs spas, and president and founder of Fitness, Inc, Fit Two, and Health Holidays, Inc.

This seminar will feature panelists from around the globe as well as speakers from C200. At the luncheon, a $25,000 scholarship will be awarded to an MBA student at the Leavey School of Business.

Business sponsors ValueStorm, Sun Microsystems, Devcon Construction, the GLB Group, and Laserscope joined the University and C200 in sponsoring the event. For more information about the event, call 408-554-4557.

About the Committee of 200

"Pioneering. Risk-taking. Intense. Disciplined. Focused. Committed." These are the words which best describe the members of C200, the professional organization of preeminent women business owners and corporate executives of multi-million dollar companies. Founded in 1982, Committee of 200 members are a select group of more than 450 diverse women at the top of their respective fields, all of whom have achieved measurable success as entrepreneurs or corporate executives. The group is committed to sharing what its members have learned along the way with each other and with the next generation of businesswomen. C200 is a unique organization: a combination network, learning lab, and peer group of the most accomplished businesswomen in the world--women who have overcome stereotypes to achieve success on their own terms. For more information, see http://www.c200.org

About the Leavey School of Business

The Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University began in 1926, and was one of the first business schools in the country to receive national accreditation. In 2004, the MBA program was listed by U.S. News and World Report as one of the Top Business Schools in the U.S., and its part-time program was listed among the top 10. More than 80 percent of its 1,100 MBA students are working professionals in Silicon Valley. More information is available at www.scu.edu/business.

About Santa Clara University

Santa Clara University, a comprehensive Jesuit, Catholic university located in California's Silicon Valley, offers its 8,047 students rigorous undergraduate curricula in arts and sciences, business, and engineering, plus master's and law degrees. Distinguished nationally by the third-highest graduation rate among all U.S. master's universities, California's oldest higher-education institutions demonstrates faith-inspired values of ethics and social justice. More information is available at www.scu.edu.